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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

/ concluded to make the best Of it. and
agreed Co share the bed with Duks In
the log stable had hardly lain down
before was sleeping soundly, and did
not hear the noise on the roof; but my
old friend did, and. no doubt, used
every possible means TO awaken me,
but failed.
.sWheH awakened. however. Twas
the worst scared man that ever lived
to tell story. There was Duke down
upon his knees. snorting and paving
at some object. but could not tell
what il was In the dark. and ! struck 3
light. No sooner had l made the dis
covery than something was upon me.
and we three were having lively time
in that old stable. Duke managed to
break his bride and come TO my as
sistance, otherwise ] would not be
here. After we had fought for some
time was knocked eenseless and fell
beside my old horse. did not regain
consciousness until daybreak, when, to
my horror. found large panther at
my feet, with Duke on his knees, ap-
parently holding it down. at once
went to his assistance. and found that
the panther in his death struggle had
buried his teeth in Dukes nose, from
which the old fellow could not free
himself, and which also compelled
him to continue in the kneeling posi-
tion."
'!Was your protector much injured?"
'tWell / should say he was. He was
Is bloody as any butcher you ever laid
your eyes upon. His nose was forever
after sorry looking object, and while
I loved that brote more than many
persons do their children, Twas robbed
Of him by Morgan while was giving
lessons with him in Jennings county.
Since that day have never been able
to buy duplicate Of old Duke.
.sWhat did do with the pantheri
Well, to tell the truth about it, was
not able to do anything for some time.
The people who gave us their shelter
| came down to the stable in the morn
ing to see where we were, as no sigr
| Of us was to be had about the premises
and they found us both in disfiguret
condition. The lady at once prepared
bandage for my mangled legs anC
also fixed up the warrior. The cause
of all the trouble was also attended to
and his pelt was soon alongside coon
skin on the side of the house. 1t wa
the largest panther ever killed in tina
section, and no one seemed to be awar
of the fact more than Duke. 1t mus
have weighed at the very least seventy
five pounds, and was Is long as tn
average hunting-,log. - IadtGhdpoti
Mems
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southern landscapes.

One never hears of tourist going a
second time to bask in the splendors of
tropical scenery. The reason for this
is because, not to put too fine point
upon it, there is no tropical scenery
The South has its magnificent magno-
las. with their dark-green. glossy
leaves and dazzling white flowers. its
pines and its palniettos, its fragrant
orange-trees, its never-fading food of
moonlight turning night into day and
the phosphorescent sea into blazing
mirror; but 1t has no scenery. The
general aspect of every Southern land
seape upon which my eyes have rested,
from Charleston, S. C.. 10 Peraambuco,
in Brazil. is that of a gray. colorless,
dead, and dying waste Of vegetation,
in which there is nothing attractive or
even tolerable. The magnolia. sepa-
rated from its natural associates of
gray moss and dead ereepers, and
transplanted TO the lawn, becomes a
splendid tree with the landscape gar
dener's care; bat a single tree is not
scenery. Considered singly there are
many beautiful flowers. shrubs, and
trees in the hot lati.ndes: but colIee-
lively. in its natural state, the South
ern forest is dreary, sun-burned jun
gle. II cannot for a moment he com
pared To- the brightness aud freshness
of our Northern deeidUoHs trees, or
even oar perennial pines.
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saved by His Horse.


In speaking to an old horse-trainer
short time ago about one of his
favoPite animals he soon became warm
on the subject-a gave it as his opin-
ion that the saying. Women first of
all, was a mistake, aud the inventor
of the saying had never seen a good
horse or he would have been ashamed
of himself
My old fayOrite horse, Duke he
continued, ..had more sense than half
the people, and / never saw him ex.
cited in my life. could always rely
on old Duke in time Of trouble. There
was q time in the country when it was
not safe for any one to travel, espe-
cially if he was known to be a man
'that usually had money. but. while
do not mean to say that always had
that pleasure, yet was considered a
moneymaker. II was the custom In
those days To 20 from town to town,
and a Duke and Mere going through
the country one evening I stopped At
country inn and asked for lodging.
was informed thai they could accom-
mediate the hn1-Sc. but MAS ens too
nasny. Il WAS then gf.aving late and
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Orfhoaox Opinion.

It was noticeable among the speeches
delivered ct the Methodist church re-
ception last week that every speaker
had something to say about the boom.
Judge Cunningham said that Emporia
was in the middle Of the world, because
the dome Of the heavens was just over
our heads and that the sky sloped down
to earth on every side. Rev. ingalls,
said that we have a magnificent soil,
which is favorable to ideas. Prof.
Kelly said that Brother Sargent's lines
had fallen In pleasant places, and the
new pastor made quite a number of
pleasant comments on the appearance
Of Emporia. We surely ought to
boom.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

WORD comes from Dodge City that
the special commissioners appointed
by Gov. Martin to take testimony Of j.
w. Knapp, F. L. Lilley, j. F. UIlinger,
M. A. Walton, Charles Flack, J. B.
Leahy, Wesley Moore and James and
Charles Sechrist, who are confined
there, charged with killing the two
notorious desperadoes at Coronado
during the county seat election of
Wichita county in February, COM
pleted taking evidence yesterday.
The testimony shows that the killing
of the two men from Leoti was justi-
fable, as they commenced abusing the
Coronado citizens and also fired the
first shot. 1t was further proven that
the ten men under arrest were not
implicated in the shooting affair at all.
The commissioner will go to Garden
City to-day and complete his work by
taking the testimony of the other four
men who are confined there.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

HENRY WATTERsoN, the gifted
editor Of the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, is Disguised, the immediate Oc-
casion being the idiotic fuss made over
the Whitney baby, and the construc-
ton Of a private entrance to Albaugh's
theatre for the special use Of the presi-
dent and his family, and the remote
occasion, the extraordinary degree Of
red tapeism existing in all the depart
ments. Henry thus voices his feel
ings:
cat time when all that is mean and
sordid in our shoddy society is turning
itself inside-out to ape the manners OF
the titled and rich arfstocracies of
Christendom, when iIl-gotten wealth is
tumbling heels over head in the ecram-
BILE for a coarse, corrupting pre-emi-
hence in parvenuism, when the old
stately courtesy Of simple manhood
and womanhOod which once were a
grace and q charm all their own in our
public walks and ways are being en-
| quilted in the hog-wallow Of the new
made greatness, with its imported
trappings, it was most fit and needful
that a democratic president and his
democratic administration should rise
above the mud and mire of fraud and
cant and plant themselves upon the
high and solid ground Of self-honorine
reality, with its homely lessons OF
modesty and truth. A private en-
| trance to q private box because the
crowd 'annoys' him! Fab, and out up.
on such tom-fooleryl On what bird,
lings doth this our birdie feed that be
hath grown so sensitive?"
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

IT is indeed poor wind that blows
no one good, and the truth of the above
old adage was never better illustrated
than in the following on the interstate
commerce bill, for the truth of which,
however, we do not vouch:
lone thing is mighty certain, the
new int rstate commerce law has been
a mighty good thing for the churches.
It is rapidly increasing the number of
religious people Of the country, and if
the increase keeps on as it has begun
there will be some surprising accessions
to the various churches along this line
Of road. How do I make this out?
Why. in this way: The new law, OF
rather the railroad Interpretation of it,
prohibits the issuance Of passes to ed
itors, politicians, favorites, etc. But
it does not prohibit the free passing Of
ministers of the gospel. You would be
surprised if you were to go through the
train with me and see the large num-
Der of ministers we have riding with US
nowadays. Only to-day I had two
ministers riding with me in the smok-
ing car, and they were playing seven
up for the cigars and drinking brand
of red liquor that smelled good deal
like that which I know members of the
legislature are f,ufl e =
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

James Patton and Catherine Gilmore
were last Friday united In marriage at
the home of the bride, oil East street,
Rev. Brown Of the Second Baptist
church officiating. The house was
crowded with the friends of the happy
couple. A large number of handsome
and valuable presents were received by
the bride. During the evening refresh
ments were served and fine time en-
a fine time enjoyed by all present.
The young couple will settle down to
housekeeping in this city. They have
the best wishes Of the NEWS for their
future happiness.
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HoteI CIerka.

''I'll tell you why the newspapers
ridicule clerks so numerically, said
member of that much-abused profession
the other night. lone of the chief
duties of the hotel clerk is to answer
questions. A thing you are in the
habit of doing all the time soon be-
comes almost automatic, and you can
do it while your mind is really on other
things. People ask the same questions
of hotel clerk hundred times day.
He quickly gets the answers down to
the briefest possible formula. These
he rattles of in a perfunctory, unin-
terested way to all inquirers, including
newspaper-menf The newspaper-men
get an idea they have not received
sufficient attention, and Immediately
jump to the conclusion that the hotel
clerks distracted manner is due to
self-conceit, when it is simply result
of systematizing his work.
There's a great deal in this, but the
fact remains that in some unaccount-
able manner many hotel clerks, and
especially young ones, absorb the idea
that they are of vast consequence in a
community and above the necessity
which other businessmen find of being
civil to all Corners. ] saw very
clipper young snob OF a clerk beauti-
fully taken down by an older and more
experienced snob at an uptown hotel
a few nights ago. The young man in
question handles the mail of so many
distinguished statesmen that he quite
considers himself one of them, and
feels competent to patromize all ordin-
airy people who fall in his way. A
well-known Senator of a dyspeptic
diathesis and uncertain temper had just
arrived. The young clerk beamed on
him with all the kindlihess of personal
regard, inquired after his health, and
wound up by asking in rather loud
tone of voice when the statesman's wife
and daughter would return to town.
The Senator turned on him with look
that just desolated the smirk on his
countenance, and dryly but loudly an
swered, 'sWell, I'll let you know in
time for You to make the fires in their
rooms
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Heard nrrrahA

The Tuesday evening meeting of the
board of trade was very enthusiastic
one. A lumber Of speeches were made
and it was resolved that neither money
or pains should be SPARED to make
things boom. The committee on emil
grafton were authorized to take steps
toward getting an excursion to our city
from Kansas City, and other measures
of like nature were discussed.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28
New Business Houses.

During the past two weeks there has
been quite a number of new business
houses established in our city, repre-
senting hundreds of thousands of dol
lars. Among them are one grocery
house. one boot and shoe store. one no
ton store, one candy mandatory, one
undertaking establishment and numer-
Gus restaurants and eating houses. 1t
looks as if we were on the road to a fine
business boom.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

THE interstate commerce law will
raise the price of circus tickets and
make great moral shows" few and far
between. The menagerie and circus
win have to either quit or go back to
the old-fashioned wagons of our faith
ers' and grandfathers' days. 1t is safe
to say that the interstate law viii
be immensely unpopular with ''young
America" as soon as he begins to see
its affects
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

A CITY is what its people make it. If
it is dead and unprogressive, it is be-
cause its people have the dry rot and
aJe opposed to advancement. Law
reAce can be made the busiest and
handsomest city in the state if her peo-
so will it.. All that is necessary to
done is for them to resolve them
YES into cooperative society-so to
oakland work harmoniously togeth-
Lawrence Tribune.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

The many friends of Thos. n. Dixon
in this and other localities win regret
to learn he is no more among the
living.
His death, which was not unexpect-
ed, took place at the family residence,
near Plymouth, this county. on Tues
day, April 18th. He was born near
Snow Camp in central n. C., Nov. %,
1851, and, as may be seen, was about
30 years Of age at the time Of his death.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

A VOTE on the question of the liquor
rafiic was recently taken in Glasgow,
cotland, and its suburbs. There were
=, 246 householders in favor of the peo-
BE having complete control of the liq-
nor traffic by their votes. and $685.
against; 81 ,704 were in favor of entire
prohibition and 19,4l1 against: Al ,427
were favorable to a reduction in the
present number of licensed houses and
1851 against: $500 were opposed and
u .2Sa not opposed to all new licenses.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

TIE next congress has not a Robin
son in it. The tempers and tempera-
ments are represented by Gay, Bland,
Crisp and Wise. There are also Oates,
Rice and Berry, Bacon and Hogg. The
colors are represented by. White, Brown
and Gray.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

BoYCoTrING in Connecticut is becom-
ing unpopular with all classes of socie-
ty. The general manager Of a railroad
has been arrested and fined for having
black-listed workman, and workmen
have been fined for black-listing or boy
cotting an employer and his goods. 1t
is very good rule which works both
WAYS
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

AN exchange suggests that If all the
contemplated coal holes and artesian
wells are bored, Kansas will, in short
time, loook like sieve. Just so. And
If she will only allow oil, water and
gas to escape as freely as would sieve,
all will be re-sieved with thanks. Pat
enU applied for.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

IT is stated that after the jury in the
Arensdorf case had retired to consider
its verdict, one of the principal attor-
neys for the prisoner announced that
but for the objections of his associates
he would have set up the plea of self
defense. If this be true, despite the
disagreement of the jury there is no
longer any doubt as to who shot Had
dock. 1t was Arensdorf and not Lea
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

OUR people should remember that
there is no law against shooting gas or
oil wells in Kansas, and that whoever
first shoots the ground around EN-
poria full of holes will probably be the
champion shot of this section in the
future, and that our citizens will will
ingly pay the piper in case he gets up a
shindig by making center shot and
STRIKING oil or cras
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

A SIOUX CITY special to the Des
Moines Register relates that when one
of the very able counsel for the defense
in the Haddock trial came to address
the Jury the other day, he was so drunk
that he could hardly stand straight,
and that the court allowed him to sit
down and ''rest" after having inflicted
all present with maudlin rot for two or
thres hours.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

THE third annual meeting of the
Kansas Association of Trotting Horse
Breeders will be held at Manhattan,
September Is, IA, 10 and 16. The list
of entries already announced is large,
and the meeting promises to be one of
great interest to horsemen.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

AN exchange says: The Drunkards
have engaged five hundred tents for
their national camp meeting at Otta-
wa, IN May" The supply of tents will
be inadequate. Ottawa can probably
use that many herself. Topeka could
use twice as many, if it wonld hold a
drunkards' camp meeting during the
session of the legislature, judging by
what occurred during the last ses-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

A SMALL advertisement in a four
page paper is worth mo- to the adver-
tiser than big one in a twenty-four
page paper, because it is likely to be
seen and read. An advertisement does
good only when 1t is read, and it will
not be read if it has to be found with a
search warrant.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

JUST previous to his trip east Hind
erstate- Commissioner Morrison APP
piled for tickets to Chicago at the
Washington ticket Office and offered
SIS, the old rate. He was surprised
when he was informed that by the
inter state law, the company had been
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

THERE is one republican on the in
terstate commission-Mr. Walker OF
Vermont, who Indignantly denies that
he is a mugwump, asserts that he is a
republican and says that he voted for
Blaine; moreover, that Senator Ed
munds also voted for Blaine.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

THE Haddock murder trial termina-
ted, in a disagreement by the
jury. But an outraged public are al
most unanimous that this was brought
about by a judicious use Of whisky
money.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

NOT long ago the Courier-J Journal
scornfully referred to the president as
''his stolid and arid obstinacy." Now
it is Ibis corpulency." It is undigni-
fed to reflect upon the physical defects
of a man, If he can't help them.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

Supt. Miss A. E. Dixon, of Plym-
outh. and BENZ. F. Dixon, of Quaker
vile, Cherokee County, were in the
city Thursday making arrangements
for the burial of their brother, Thomas
N. Dixon, of Plymouth, this county,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

SIX Of the most prominent Presby-
terrain pulpits in this state are vacant,
viz: Manhattan, Topeka First, Law
renee, Emporia, Usage City and Sa-
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

SARCASTIC DANA, Of the New York
Sun, says "that If the democrats want
a candidate for president who could
not get anv Of the labor uote, and would
lose much of the normal democratic
vote, Cleveland Is their man.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

A PLATE paper lately urged our
people to ''plant chestnuts," probably
referring to its kilograms. But, II 80,
the advice Is nonsenSical, Is they are
to stale to take root.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

MossBAcK Democrats are growing
that when the backs Of the presidents
appointees to Office are scratched they
often find old republicans under the
new akin
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

TIE board of trade takes 8, 500 copies
Of next Saturdays NEws.-ENPoRIA
NEWS.
Your board Of trade understands it
self and knows how to help Emporia.-
State Journal.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

CHIEF ARTHUR OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotives Engineers, receives
%, 900 per annum. Grand Master Pow
derby receives S6 900.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

WASHINGTON people who like wine
at their dinners have to buy their own
stock for Sunday. Hotel keepers are
forbidden to furnish It on Sunday.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

To be bored il q terrible infection,
but Emporia could stand considerable
Of it, provided 1t was in the right
direction-in the earth.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

II is said that in Chicago owners Of
yachts clew up their sails when they
have lady passengers. Their high
bonnets catch all the wind.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

BISHOP HURST, of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has read the Bible in
the language Of every country in which
he has held conference.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

The value of the public school build
ings of Emporia is S125, 1867, and it
costs 5000 a year to support the
schools.-Topeka Commonwealth.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

The farmers, with very few excep-
lions, have their corn planted. The
outlook for good harvest is fine.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-04-28

Thoroughly cleanse the blood. which Is the
fountain of health, by using DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, and good digestion.
fair skin, buOyant spirits, vital strength, ano
SoundneSs of constitution VIII be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
from the common pimple, blOtch, or eruption,
to the worst Scrofula, or blood-pOieon. Is
Salt-rheum or letter, Fever-sores, Hip-jolns
Disease Scrofulous Sores and Sweinngss Hn-
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Golden Medical Discovery cures ConsI1mp-
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wonderful blood-purifying. inv1goraLng anto
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Severe coughs, Asthma, and kindred anec-
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CURES the Severesf Coughs.
For Terpid Liver. Bfliouenees- or Liver
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: MERICCS, KANSAS, Real Eesnste and
"A ColIec3ten Agent Once. third door, east
corner BFosdway and Main. Correspondence
solicited
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nHYsIcIAN AND sCEGEON. Dmrs over
Le]is g NcCapiIIes drug store Rest
,ls-1ssss Me- ItG Merchants street, EIroFias Kan.
So. EI<hs eF day tatts n city - pssaHtFy
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